Each semester, the University of Arkansas Libraries offer faculty compensation and support to reduce the cost of textbooks for their students by using open educational resources.

During the past decade, the idea of education as a 21st-century civil rights issue has surged. Many of our nation’s public schools that serve large numbers of low-income communities frequently face ...

Web-based educational tools hold the promise of both reducing the cost of higher education and helping learners complete their degrees. Open courseware and other open educational resources are ...

In 2019, the Drexel Libraries appointed three Library Faculty Fellows to support its initiative to lower students’ expenditures for required course readings by adopting, advocating, or guiding Drexel ...

Federal lawmakers want to encourage schools to consider using free, modifiable learning resources for students before investing in costly textbooks and curricula. A move in the U.S. Senate to promote ...

Now is the time of year when U.S. public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money.

This week is Open Education Week, when members of Open Education Consortium come together to showcase what they're doing to make education more open, free, and available to everyone. When Melissa Hoch ...

Can open educational resources, or OER, truly create more equity and access? That was the question at the heart of our #DLNchat on January 9, which centered around OER in Higher Education. Our special ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching and learning materials that are published under an open copyright license, frequently a Creative Commons license, that permits others to freely use, adapt ...

Menendez is a history major at UCSD, and lives in La Jolla. Textbooks are a major burden on college students due to their increasing cost. Since 1977, the price of textbooks has gone up by more than 1 ...

Maximiliano Marzetti a reçu des financements de Creative Commons, for a different project: the effects of the "domaine public payant" in force in some Latin American and African countries on CC ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) represent a transformative shift in global educational paradigms, promoting accessible, flexible and inclusive learning ...